Love in the Big City is a wry portrait of millennial loneliness and the abundant joys of queer life. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness, and another who might end up being the great love of his life. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer.

Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. It revolves around a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul. Love in the Big City is Sang Young Park’s first book to be published as an English translation. XOXO is a new romance that proves chasing your dreams doesn’t have to mean sacrificing your heart, from acclaimed author Axie Oh. When a relationship means not only jeopardizing her place at her dream music school but also endangering everything Jaewoo’s worked for, Jenny has to decide once and for all just how much she’s willing to risk for love. And like most K-pop idols, Jaewoo is strictly forbidden from dating anyone.

Jaewoo is a member of one of the biggest K-pop bands in the world. But when she finds herself falling for a K-pop idol, she has to decide whether their love is worth the risk. And while Kdramas and K-pop aren’t new, but it did find a new audience base world over thanks to several streaming platforms.Īnd, if you, like me, are a Kdrama addict, and want to satiate the bibliophile within you, here are some books by Korean authors (available on Amazon) to cosy up with on a winter night.įan of K-pop? Then this one’s you! Jenny’s never had much time for boys, K-pop, or really anything besides her dream of being a professional cellist. Almost the whole world started speaking in unison about the amazing content from South Korea. It gave several people a chance to move beyond their work lives and have a little fun, even if it was virtual-there were virtual tours, exhibitions, online classes, workshops, etc-that kept many busy through the trying times.Īmid all this, what came as another expected guest was Kdramas. And, while our physical world shrunk and got confined to the four walls of our homes, our virtual world expanded. The year 2020 brought with it an unaccepted destructor-Covid-19.

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